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A northwestern Lehigh County man was arrested by state police Monday afternoon on a criminal mischief charge that came out of west-central New York. Robert J. Hartman III, 20, of the 2900 block of Golden Key Road, Weisenberg Township, was taken into custody at 5:50 p.m. by state troopers from Fogelsville. On a request from New York State Police, the Pennsylvania troopers went to Hartman's home, identified him and, after receiving a copy of his arrest warrant, took him to be booked, police said. Hartman is charged with third-degree criminal mischief under a warrant issued Friday, but the details of his alleged offense were not spelled out in court documents. He allegedly committed...

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A northwestern Lehigh County man was arrested by state police Monday afternoon on a criminal mischief charge that came out of west-central New York.Robert J. Hartman III, 20, of the 2900 block of Golden Key Road, Weisenberg Township, was taken into...

Catasauqua police officer Scott M. Rothrock had already been stabbed once in the chest with a 13-inch butcher knife and was trying to block more thrusts as he lay on his back in a snow bank Feb. 23 in east Allentown.
With Jerome D. Nichols refusing to...

The girlfriend of the Darby Borough police officer who was killed over the weekend in what evidently was a domestic dispute, will be charged later Tuesday with the slaying, police said.
Tyaina Finch, 27, of Glenolden, is being held in lieu of $250,000...

A 17-year-old boy using Facebook to advertise an Apple MacBook for sale stole $340 from a man who arranged to buy it in Allentown Monday night, Allentown police said.
It was unclear Tuesday what charges the teen, identified in court records by the...

Wendi Stanford was, the prosecutor said, "a woman who killed her son and almost got away with it."
But the dogged determination of two police detectives, plus forensic evidence that cracked a cold case, led to a guilty verdict more than 10...

A man wanted by Lehigh County probation officers barricaded himself in an east Allentown home for two hours before surrendering, police said.
James Abraham, 54, gave up peacefully at around 11:47 a.m. and was taken away by probation officers from the...

About a year after her New Hope mansion was scorched for the third time in five years, Claire Risoldi visited Tina Mazaheri, a family friend.
Risoldi suspected her family was under investigation for the fires at the 10-acre estate they called Clairemont....

A former volunteer firefighter in Montgomery County held four fellow firefighters hostage at gunpoint in the Elkins Park section of the township Tuesday morning before being taken into custody, police said.
The hostage situation occurred at the LaMott...

DOYLESTOWN — In the first day of preliminary hearing testimony in a $20 million insurance fraud case, topics ranged from whether a stockpile of hair spray could accelerate a fire — to whether a home sale was a sham transaction — to why police questioned a...

Students at a Lansdale high school met with administrators Monday, expressing concern about nude photos of female students that had been allegedly shared online.
Students at North Penn High School said nude or semi-nude photos that girls sent to boys...

A 32-year-old man threatened to kill Lehigh University's police chief and officers, according to Northampton County Court records.Trevor John Behr of the 3200 block of Margate Road in Bethlehem Township was charged with terroristic...

A man was charged with aggravated assault after he allegedly fought with an Allentown police officer, police said.
Jesus Millan, 47, was charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. He was arraigned by District Judge David M....

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The New Jersey investigation into a police officer who was behind the wheel in a fatal wrong-way crash that killed another officer and a civilian has been moved to another prosecutor's office.
Linden Police Officer Pedro Abad Jr....

A Monroe County teen had a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl and took nude photos of her, Pocono Mountain Regional police said.Shane Kenderdine, 18, of the Pocono Lake section of Tobyhanna Township, was charged with statutory...

A Lower Macungie man was charged Monday afternoon with heroin dealing after police in Allentown found him carrying 31 packets of the drug, police said.
Saye N. Kilikpo, 25, of the 2000 block of Brookside Road was stopped as he walked with two other men...

Allentown police are looking for a man who robbed a woman of a bank deposit bag containing $5,000 on Monday in east Allentown.Officers were dispatched at 10:18 a.m. to the 1600 block of Union Boulevard near a Wells Fargo bank, Assistant...

An Upper Saucon Township man stole a car in Allentown early Saturday and led police on a pursuit through three counties, according to court records.Carlos M. Estrella-Sanchez, 39, allegedly took the car from the 900 block of North Fifth...

A man's car was stolen last week after he left it running outside a Dunkin' Donuts in Mount Pocono, police said. Days later, police in northern New Jersey arrested Marcelino Mendez-Ruperto, 39, of Tobyhanna Township, according to Pocono...

Calling her a "dangerous woman," a Lehigh County judge on Monday sentenced Nakia Rivera to four to 10 years in a state prison for kidnapping her ex-girlfriend from the shower of an upscale Upper Saucon home last year.Rivera, 27, of Allentown...

Lawyers for six fired police officers charged with stealing millions of dollars in cash and narcotics from drug dealers attacked the government case Monday, saying it relies on 19 lying drug dealers and a "dirty, despicable" ex-colleague.
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